#and there are so many others in which his attitude is absolute 🔥🔥🔥

[inklessletter]

I wish more people drew steve as slutty as you do. It keeps me alive.

Well, I do like to draw Steve a lot, slutty and non-slutty. He's my comfort character. But I'm kind of concerned, beloved anon, that this is what's keeping you alive. In words of a very wise girl:

[xiaosweetheart]

pls share ur xiao self ship hcs he actually told me hes in love w u too

character(s): stares. blinks. me. and xiao.

genre: sfw (themes of fluff; light angst)

a/n: doing sth new today ig ! uhm. self-ship hcs below the cut !!

         ↬ oh my oh my ok so

         ↬ he's just like me fr. which. which doesn't seem like it'd be good for a relationship by any metric 💀💀💀 BUT BUT hear me out, i think it'd cancel out like pemdas LMFAO

         ↬ yeah we're both emotionally unavailable and isolate ourselves but together we're emotionally compatible and isolated together

         ↬ let's rewind a lil tho, it absolutely took A While to get anywhere relationship-wise w him 🚶 both platonic and romantic, but i'm so insanely stubborn and persistent and obsessive until i get my way so yk there was no way he was ab to get rid of me 😭💀💀

         ↬ now. to address the mutual emotional unavailability. or like. our mutual "give me space" attitudes or whateva 🔥🔥

         ↬ since we r both like. not suffocating !!!! and understand when the other needs space that does Wonders for the relationship

         ↬ it is. it is also, unfortunately, a gateway for mis/lack of communication :// xiao would be aware of any problems in the relationship, but unless they affect him immediately and personally, he just. won't bring it up — which means i'm gon have to do that and. oh lord 💀

         ↬ speaking of communication, xiao is. yikes. Very straight to the point and Blunt — even moreso than i am 😟😟 and its v easy for him to come across as cold and/or uncaring even if thats not the case. and i do think sometimes it would sting (maybe more than) a lil bc i'll have my moments of Sensitivity but !!!!!!! i can see myself exerting a great deal of patience w him :( lord knows he needs it 😭

         ↬ derailing for a sec; even further in the relationship, i do think xiao is still somewhat emotionally isolated ???? bc of his karmic debt and his refusal to accept any sympathy or help :(( which. i understand 💀 but also :/ once again i would be as patient as i could but 🤨🤨 i'm gonna help him w this whether he likes it or not it's unavoidable [lovingly]

                 ↬ in a gentle way tho !!!! gentle but stupidly fucking persistent. but i also think this is where. Many problems would occur. bc xiao is stupidly stubborn and has such– he's actually horribly self-deprecating. :(( n also a lil emo he would try to push me away bc "he doesn't want me to get hurt" as if i don't know what i signed up for 🙄 he can isolate and devalue himself all he wants but i'm not going anywhere and i'm not going to stop trying to help

         ↬ so anyway, fast forward to the more domestic(?) sides of the relationship, i'm gonna touch on both our love languages and how they intertwine rq

         ↬ i think xiao's love languages are quality time, acts of service, and physical touch !!!!

         ↬ quality time for an assortment of reaons: his isolationist tendencies, he's so old and has seen so much come and go and xiao is very aware of how fleeting human life is, and now that i am someone he holds near and dear to his heart, whether he likes it or not, i think he'd like to capitalize on his time w me

         ↬ we don't even have to be doing anything — or even talking; just one another's company is more than is enough <3 sometimes u will not hear from either of us for days at a time bc we are just simply hiding away from the rest of the world (together more often than not, but not always)

         ↬ acts of service bc words r not xiao's strong suit 💀💀💀 by any degree 😭 but he's doing his best and i appreciate that :(( he's just not very good at expressing himself or his feelings overall (this has lead to a handful of slightly damaging Miscommunications but thankfully im Very intuitive and do, in fact, know what's wrong)

         ↬ but anyway when i say acts of service is one of xiao's love languages, i do NOT mean cooking and cleaning 🧏 i mean like. its more akin to "the littler things" yk what i mean ????? like maybe he'd do lil tasks for me here n there throughout the day (whenever he can) or maybe run an errand or two if it's important 🙏🙏

         ↬ and lastly physical touch !! now. now just hear me out. xiao is so insanely touch starved it's literally not even funny i am Genuinely worried for him 😭😭😭 and so he was 100% touch repulsed at the start of our relationship, but that's ok !!!!! i am a very patient man when i want to be and have no problems w waiting for him to warm up to touch

         ↬ now. once xiao is ok w physical touch i think he becomes so physically clingy ????? bc he's like 2000 years old and was . Was Fighting for years and years on end this man has never felt a loving touch in his life (sobbing rn fr)

         ↬ by physically clingy i do not necessarily mean cuddly, i mean he is just. always by my side as often as he can be. i don't think he'd take the initiative to like . actually touch me ?????? (not for a while anyway) bc he's scared of messing up or doing sth wrong and would just straight up die [Metaphorical] if he were to ever hurt me — accident or not (this def ties in w his past)

         ↬ but that's not to say he cant be cuddly !!! xiao very much enjoys cuddling but ???????? one, he doesn't even know what its called tbh (he's so out of touch w mortals but that's ok im here to help) and two, he doesn't know how to ask to cuddle either 😭😭😭❓❓❓❓ poor thing :(( probably comes up from behind n wraps his arms around my waist n puts his head on my shoulder 🧐🧐 either that or he'll grab my wrist n like ??? pull me against his chest ?? or sth to that degree anyway 🚶 but obvi i'll take the hint n offer to cuddle w him <3

                 ↬ OOOOO ALSO he absolutely fucking melts whenever i play w his hair :( it's just so. its it it its so. soft. its so simple but so sweet :((

         ↬ now its time for my love languages !!!!! :0

         ↬ so. my love languages definitely mirror those of my partners 💀🙇 but my most consistent ones are acts of service (it's that goddamn virgo venus) and physical touch !!

         ↬ not only is it convenient, but i do think it works in our favor that our love languages are the same :)

         ↬ now, my acts of service. anything u need, anything at all, i am at your service 🧎🙏🏃 when i truly love someone theres hardly a thing i wouldn't do for them, and with how down bad i am for xiao ? YEESH (god please let me take care of him please please please ple)

         ↬ i'd learn to make almond tofu SO FAST 😭😭😭😭😭 n i'd do anything n everything i could to help him in anyway possible :((

         ↬ physical touch in my case. blushes and giggles. while i do not normally entertain others touching me, it's different w xiao (or in any close-knit relationship but 🚶)

                 ↬ i'd very much enjoy napping w him (RAINY DAY NAPS PLEASE GOD) or just sitting next to him or on his lap yk <3

         ↬ i think kisses would tie in w this too ?????? shakes and cries. i would just. i would give him so many kisses :((( a gentle kiss to his forehead, on each of his checks, the tip of his nose, his neck, shoulders, everywhere :(( AND HES SO PRETTY TOO HOW COULD I NOT SMOTHER HIM IN KISSES ,'?"!,:;!,"?",???:,??!?;,

         ↬ and as for quality time, i think this one is v self explanatory. me and my lil addictive personality. uh oh. 😊 ab to get addicted to his presence fr 🤒🤒 just. just spending any sort of time w him. it doesnt matter what we're doing or where we are so long as i'm w xiao :(

         ↬ as much as i'd like to pretend i'm not codependent. i very much am. physically anyway 🧏🚶 we dont even have to talk or interact or anything — which is nice bc yk we both understand the need for Emotional space, so this works out very well i'd say. if we r in our lil isolatory episodes, then there is a sharp decrease in our actual physical interactions ???? rather we'll like sit on opposite sides of the room, not even rlly talking, and jus doing whatever but its comforting knowing that we're like not Alone yk

         ↬ " uhhhh might add more later today but its 3am and im tired so this is it for now " maybe i will write more one day

[keikakudori]

🔥 what is your opinion of ichigo as the main protagonist of bleach? as the force that was needed to stop aizen , and then save the three worlds from ywach? does he live up well as a protagonist against his villains?

Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.

okay, so -- i'll be the first person to say that kubo isn't a great writer. but - that's only sometimes. his earlier writing in the series, running from chapter one to the end of the invasion of soul society arc is actually pretty fucking good. and there's some other really good writing from him later in the series too! but sometimes his writing is just not that good and that's okay. i saw someone describe kubo once as someone who is a shallow but static writer. he gives some juicy implications of world building but he doesn't go that deep into things. which -- okay. i'm okay with that. i honestly think that kubo's writing can go through highs and lows and i do pick on his writing because it's fun but he has given us some very dynamic characters! and i love it. now, as for ichigo? i mean ... he's a shonen protagonist. i'm not an OP fan; i've tried to read it, repeatedly, and i cannot get over the art style. but i hear great things about it so like i've heard that the writing in it is really solid. but i read naruto and i'm a big fan of MHA and i mean, the thing is is that many shonen protagonists are very similar. ichigo is ... a little unique. he's a protagonist who, at first, doesn't care about protecting people which i think is hilarious. like, naruto and deku and goku come with a lot of need to protect people or to improve themselves and ichigo had none of that. he's a punk and i love him for it. but i also genuinely love seeing him going from "i don't care" to "i want to protect a whole mountainload of people" and his character growth is one of the loveliest things about the series. he never quite loses being a punk ( as we see with the time skip between the end of Deicide and the Lost Agent arc ) and, truthfully, i think that the Lost Agent arc is one of the best moments of showing just how far ichigo has come in his character growth. because, may i remind people, he was ready to kill tsukishima for what he had done to ichigo's friends and family. ichigo didn't kill aizen, he didn't kill grimmjow, ulquiorra died because of the damage he took from ichigo when our strawberry boy went all vasto lorde. but the difference between those fights and how ready ichigo was to take down both tsukishima and ginjo is honestly a little hair-raising for me. i think he's honestly a very human protagonist; he's not perfect. ichigo fucks up. he makes mistakes. he struggles with things and he's stubborn and reads as a teenager. i think that's what makes him stand out a lot to me over a lot of other shonen protagonists. ichigo's a jerk and a punk but he also does care about people. but he's not the kind of person you'd peg as a hero immediately because of his attitude. and i think he absolutely does live up to facing off against aizen and yhwach. ichigo goes from starting the series off from not caring a lot about helping people out, which rukia calls him out on with how he can't pick and choose who to help, but ichigo's response is just that he doesn't want to say he doesn't want to protect everyone. he just wants to protect everyone that he can with his two hands. ichigo is aware he can't save everyone and that's brilliant. and i really love it for him. yhwach and aizen aren't exactly comparable villains in my opinion; of course, my bias is that i adore how my friend eli ( @yhwch ) writes the mustachioed bastard and they make him so engaging and interesting with their own unique spin on him and aizen's motives are definitely complicated and a lot less nihilistic than yhwach's are. but i absolutely think that when it comes down to it? yeah, ichigo does great at being a protagonist. he's very begrudging about the fact that he's been stuck becoming a shinigami daiko ( albeit aizen manipulated ichigo and rukia to meet; matchmaking??? ) but he does come to accept it eventually. ichigo's name can be read as strawberry -- but it can also be read as 'protector' and i just find the fact that ichigo's own traumas in regards to not saving his mother and needing to protect his sisters have shaped him.

in many ways, kubo's made repeated allusions to that and it's well done in my opinion. like -- yes. kubo's not the greatest of writers and his writing suffered a lot in the blood war arc because he was being pushed to get it done thanks to SJ executives. but i think that he wrote ichigo really well and i think that ichigo did well in standing up against aizen and yhwach. we see ichigo have these moments of doubt. we see him questioning himself and his own skills and abilities. it makes ichigo very human to me and while i will always say that kubo's writing could be better? i am ecstatic that he's being given the chance to expand on several things in the blood war that he probably rushed or glossed over. i think that ichigo's just really great tbh. he's a good kid, even if he can be a punk at times!

[writingonesdreams]

Your reactions are so cute and worth it 🥰🥰🥰

I'm so touched it made you so emotional? That's a huge score for this scene 🙈❤.

I was a little worried, but if this is working it means that you have developed and showed them to us so well, that I could do this. I have a feel for them now and these descriptions and dialogues felt right for them. ✨ They are specific darlings and having insight into each of their motivations and backstories and what they feel and want for each other is very helpful.

Though I wouldn't be against a roleplay crossover like this, cause I love your dialogue and it would be fun thinking up comebacks for that.🤣

Astrea felt like she would do something epic and right to convince them, while Elijah doesn't seem the type to handle diplomacy well when everyone is so tense and worried 🤣. But he found Zephyr upon arrival, which proves his underworld contacts - you would find rebels only through those, because everyone would be saying the same thing to be safe from the tyrannical rule around them.

Also knowing how bashful Astrea is about her appearance, I wanted Skye to accidentally stumble upon that with her impression of her. 💕

I also wanted to make a big deal out of Skye deciding to tell Astrea their names as a sign of trust. 🔥

I have so many headcanons for them now 🙈❤

Just let these people bond with each other and face dangerous situations together.

Honestly Leander would be on boat seeing Antor and follow him around like a lost puppy.

Skye would totally love Astrea, her magic, her determination, her selflessness and empathy. Astrea and Zephyr have many similar core values and attitudes, and Skye would just love and appreciate her and want to be close friends.

Zephyr would stay suspicious just to balance that the other two - usually the most suspicious and distant people while he is the connector - falling so hard and quick to trust these people.

Zeph would be suspicious about Elijah the most, as Usurper's son (isn't this a conflict of interest, overthrowing a man who could give you the throne?) As someone close to Astrea and wanting her as true heir (isn't that a show? Why would an heir look for another heir to replace him with? What if he is playing her?)

Zephyr would really make them work for new recognition and trust from the people he gathered. And Astrea would impress him everytime and be happy he I so strickt with her, which would confuse him as heck

I would hope for Elijah to teach Zephyr some fun and to relax. Zeph would be too uptight in this world XD and with his responsibility and control complex and wanting to do everything on his own so he wouldn't have to, he would be driving himself insane without any respite. Elijah and your gang teaching him to relax a little, dance, spend time with those you love would be so cute.

I can just imagine Elijah dragging Zephyr to wear cooler clothes and be more attentive to Skye and relax and trust him more and Zephyr pushing these deep heavy conversations on him 🤣, like stay on track, while Elijahi is like "what are we alive for you, huh? You have to enjoy it a little too", and then Elijah sometimes does reveal things under the jokes, sometimes just plays him off, sometimes just drags him to have some fun instead...let these two become really slow friends 👀 cause I feel like this spot is kinda free for him after you leave Louis behind in Oracea and William is Astrea's best friend first.

Skye just becoming Astrea's confidant, and giving her that unconditional absolute love and support without any of the doubt, worries or difficult experiences Astrea had in Oracea. Cause in Pyria she is the star and hope and Skye would let her feel that.

Why do I imagine Skye and Elijah thinking up together what other Senate official to grab and talk, cause they would be either easy to blackmail or possible to get to their side...and Skye picking people and Elijah spreading his webs of machinations and convincing potential...

Also there is so much danger and injury potential in this setting.👀 Someone is being followed randomly by the guards (whatever police/commando for intimidation there is) and is scared to be alone, someone gets beat up out of fun right on the street cause they were standing too straight or dared to glare, there is a corrupt magic market spreading and Zephyr wants to deal with that cause it's jeopardizing their preparations, every move is risky, gets you blacklisted, helping others once they are target will get you in prison for the night, random but regular interrogation sessions that are just excuses to torture you for the joy, whistle-blowing from jealous neigbours,...(this was all historically real under fascist Germany and the communists, can you believe it)

Bloodless Heir x Tears of Iron AU Part 2

Here you go @bloodlessheirbyjacques 🤗 I hope I did them justice. Really improvising a lot with the lines 🤣.

First part here.

It was striking midnight, the sky still somehow alight with the barely passed sunset. Skye still felt chill in the air, though that might have had more to do with the atmosphere of the room.

Zephyr called them, expression drawn and serious and asked them to meet these people he couldn’t trust for a rumour they all yearned to be true. That was a dangerous combination.

“Are you sure, it was Elijah, the exiled prince?” Leander asked for the upteenth time.

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